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Reviewing Takashi in the West Village

By Sam Sifton June 15, 2010 6:36 pmJune 15, 2010 6:36 pm

Takashi, a wondrous, strange new restaurant in the West Village that specializes in raw offal and Korean-style Japanese barbecue, is the subject of this week’s review. The menu is a challenge to even the most committed carnivore. (Check out that raw liver!) But it is not a gimmicky restaurant so much as a celebratory one. It is a meat mecca, fun for adventurous eaters and anyone interested in the flavors of extremely high-end beef, uncooked or grilled. And it’s very well run to boot, with good service in a pleasant setting. It is a marvel that the restaurant’s owners, Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali, who work as the chef and general manager respectively, have never run a restaurant before. (Indeed, Takashi is Mr. Ali’s first-ever restaurant job.) Have you eaten here? Feel free, as always, to add your voice to the choir of citizen critics who have something to say about the restaurants in which they consume food. Click here, or on the “Reader Review” button attached to the published article and type away to your heart’s content.